The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-04
FREAKS OF THE WEATHER.
The Signal Service Observations Dur

| ing Inc 06COIlQ MOnbD Vi OpTlLlS.
The Signal Service reports sent out by the
War Department give some very interest
| ing information in regard to the weather
during April.
| The temperature for the month was
| slightly above the normal in the Mississippi
| valley, and Westward, over the Rocky
mountain regions, to the Pacific coast. The
/ greatest departures from the normal were
reported in the central Mississippi and lower
| Missouri valleys. The temperature was also
| slightly above the normal in Tennessee and
Kentucky and the Northern portion of
the Gulf States. In the districts ON the At
lantic coast, and in the upper Ohio valley
and lower lake region it was slightly below
! the normal.
| The rainfall for the month was generally
| below the normal in the districts east Of the
one hundredth meridian, except in Central
Missouri and thence eastward to West Vir-
| ginia, and from Southern Minnesota east
ward to Northern Michigan, and at isolated
| stations Oh the Immediate Atlantic coast,
where the rainfall has been slightly in ex-
| cess.
| The drought continues in Southern Texas,
| and the region of the greatest deficiency in
rainfall extends from Eastern Texas to the
| South Atlantic coast, where the departures
range from two to six inches below the
| normal There has also been a deficiency,
| ranging from one to three inches, from the
Central Missouri valley eastward over Iowa,
! Northern Illinois, Southern Missouri, South
ern Michigan and Northern Indiana.
| Slight deficiencies are also reported in
| Northern Minnesota and Northern Dakota
| and in the central portions of California,
the deficiency at stations in the Sacramento
| valley amounting to about one inch, where
| the average rainfall for the month is about
-
| in extreme Northern Texas, and thence
northward to Dakota the rainfall has been
| slightly in excess On the Pacific coast and
in Southern California the rainfall has been
| slightly in excess of the normal, and in
| Oregon the excess ranges from 0,S inch at
| Roseburg to 1.S inches at Portland. The
only stations reporting snow remaining on
the ground at the end of the month were
| Salt Lake City one inch and Mount Wash
! ington two inches.
The month opened with storm on the
Atlantic coast central near Eastern Florida
with snow extending as far south as North
| Carolina on the 1st and I'd. This storm
moved rapidly nOrthward and developed
great energy on the New England coast
during the ID, causing severe gales from
! Norfolk northward to Nova Scotia
On the 18th disturbance developed in
| Western Texas and moved northward tc
Southern Dakota, attended by general
rains over Northern Texas and the eastern
slope of the Rocky mountains.
On the 10th storm was observed in West
ern Texas, which moved northeastward oveI
the Ohio valley and thence eastward over
the Middle Atlantic States during the 18th
and 10Th, attended by heavy rains in the
Ohio Valley, and dangerous easterly gales
on the Middle Atlantic coast on the 18th
One of the most severe storms observed dur
| ing the month was central in the Rocky
mountain regions on the 2lst. It moved
slowly eastward, causing destructive local
storms in Missouri and adjoining States
during the night of the 21st, and passed over
the Lake regions on the 22d and 23d, at
| tended by severe gales. The fifth severe
storm of the month was central in the Gull
south of New Orleans on the 24th II
moved rapidly norteastward, following
the coast line, increasing in
energy during the 18th, caus-
ing severe gales from Norfolk northward &c
Nova Scotia on the 26th. The sixth severe
| storm of the month was observed north OF
Montana on the 26th and moved southeast
ward to the lower lake region, and thence
eastward over New England, where the
direction of movement changed to the north
ward, and at the end of the month it was
central near Eastport, but was apparently
decreasing in energy, with increasing pres
sure at the centre Of the disturbance.
The most severe cold wave OF the month
was observed in Northern Montana on the
ID, and extended eastwasd over the Ohio
valley during the 4th, causing the tempera
ture to fall from 20' to 40' from the Gull
States nortbward to the lake regions. This
cold wave reached the Atlantic coast on the
5th, attended by a fall of temperature OF
from 20 to so in the Middle Atlantic
States.